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The crown is sympathetically styled so as to be more comfortable than the traditional onion crowns featured on old-fashioned pilot watches (apparently designed so pilots could grip the crown while wearing chunky gloves). The dial is, despite its myriad markings, quite legible and displayed behind a domed sapphire crystal. Initially, I was not so taken by the amount of font sizes on the dial (the place names, 24hr markers, 12, 3, 9, and 6 versus the rest of the hour markers, the date numbers, and the branding), but after a while I warmed to it. Overall, this Vulcain Aviator Cricket is a smart aviation watch. The watch itself is available in two colorways: you can either have a black dial on a black leather strap that narrows from 22mm between the lugs to a comfortable 18mm at the S/S pin buckle, or a white dial with blue highlights on a tan strap. The ratchet wheel is skeletonized and, to add a flash of color, the screws have been blued. There are some nice touches with the decoration of this movement. That’s a decision I can’t really fault, given this watch’s primary complication is the alarm. The V-11 already features 2 barrels out of necessity – the alarm needs its own power source – and the movement designers might have dropped the vph in an attempt to reduce the strain on the mainsprings.
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The Vulcain Aviator Cricket alarm watch allows you to do just that, thanks to a sapphire case back that reveals the movement and the stylized ‘V’ for Vulcain logo.Īdditionally, a low train count could have been selected to conserve power, as higher operating frequencies drain a watch’s power reserve. That said, I have always thought a slow-swinging balance wheel is more attractive to look at. Practically, this means the watch may take a little longer to recover from shocks and return the balance wheel to its optimum amplitude, resulting in slight timing error. Interestingly, the Vulcain Aviator Cricket movement operates at 18,000vph, which is quite slow these days. Shown here is the Vulcain V-10 movement that serves as the base for the V-11 – Vulcain has not made any images available of the latter, this is shown here to give you an idea of movement construction and finishing